Red Hat Eyeing ‘Open Hybrid Cloud’ with New JBoss PaaS Lineup
Red Hat is moving beyond the realm of containerized PaaS with new OpenShift services for plugging cloud-based applications into back-office systems. Based on the company’s JBoss application server, the upcoming “xPaaS” solutions aim to make it easier for OpenShift users to integrate cloud apps into their IT environments.
Red Hat’s xPaas lineup includes a business process management service that offers activity monitoring, process simulation and modeling, and the ability to “configure automation and data” on the fly without having to modify existing code. These capabilities will be made available in the coming months, along with a mobile push notification app and an integration-as-a-service solution which are currently in developer preview.
Paul Cormier, the head of products and technologies at Red Hat, explained that his company is unifying its lineup to better address enterprise needs.
“Bringing more technologies from our Middleware stack into the cloud and making them available as easy-to-consume services is a natural progression for us,” Cormier said. “We’ve been moving in this direction for years, building out our Red Hat JBoss Middleware portfolio and fine tuning our OpenShift PaaS technology. The combination of Red Hat JBoss Middleware and OpenShift is powerful for developers that want seamless integration across multiple platforms and the speed and innovation to match their expectations.”
Today’s announcement underscores Red Hat’s plans to position Openshift at the center of what it calls the open hybrid cloud. The vendor had previously joined forces with dotCloud to bake container-based virtualization into its PaaS portfolio.
Under the agreement, the two companies will make dotCloud’s Docker container engine available on Openshift and Fedora OS. The tool will also be enhanced to support the open libvirt API and Red Hat’s device-mapper thin provisioning technology.
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